Some substitutes coming out of committees will now be available linked within the history of a bill.

April 4, 2013

Eastern Michigan University, Lake Superior State University, Northern Michigan University, Oakland University and Wayne State University were added to the 'Colors of Michigan'theme page.

March 1, 2013

Logged in users who utilize the Notification System may be happy to know that there is now a printable report on the current status of the bills that you are watching. It can be found by selecting "Notify" from the logged in user menu, and choosing the "Status of Current Bills for this user" function, found under the "Notification Functions" on the lower portion of the "Notify" page.

February 28, 2013

The Committee Meetings Page now offers 3 ways to see meetings. You can view them in a list, in a calendar by the week, or within the Committees on the Committee Page.

February 7, 2013

Searching by category is now available on the Home page. This is a convenient option when you want to find bills of a certain category, even when that word, such as the word 'weapon', is not found within the body of the bill, but is in the description.As always, home page searching defaults the the current session. Remember to look at the Bills page when seeking a bill from a prior session.

Sept 25, 2012

The House and Senate 2011 Official Journals are now available and can be found on the Publication Page.

Sept 5, 2012

2011-2012 Michigan Manual online version is available on the Publications page.

Feb 29, 2012

Tool tips have been added to the Main Menu, which is the menu on left side of website. Now a person can get a general idea of the content of a menu item by pointing to the link without having to go to the page.

See a sample of the new Bill Watch Summary report. This is a feature available to registered users. Use it to keep track of action that has happened on bills you are watching. Find this new report on the Notify page, which is a menu item that is available on the top menu bar after logging in. Then look under the "Notification Functions' for 'Bill Watch Summary'.

Changed the 'Search Bills by Category' page by replacing long drop down controls with a radio button that allows easy viewing of all categories. Also added the total number of bills by category to this screen.

Great news! History actions on bills that reference amendments and substitutes will now be linked to these documents while they are the current version of the bill. When that document is replaced with a different version it will no longer be linked.

12/03/2010

When tracking legislation by the NEW notification type of district you can enjoy long term notifications that won't expire when a new session starts! Find out more about the legislative notification service by watching our NEW
video tutorial on the subject!

Two new videos explaining rss feeds can be found on the Legislative RSS Publication page too!

RSS feeds are now available for legislative activity starting with the 2009-2010 session. Find the rss icon on the top of each bill and click on it to see the feed and copy the url into your favorite rss feed reader. See Senate Bill 1 or 2009 for an example.

Committee Bill Records from PRIOR SESSIONS are now being made available on the site.
Find this new feature at the bottom of the Committee Bill Records page.

10/23/2008

Notify! now includes Enrolled Bills. Find out more about Notify! and other free services provided by the Legislative Internet Technology Team in cooperation with the Michigan Legislative Council, the Michigan House of Representatives, and the Michigan Senate.

07/17/2008

2007-2008 Michigan Manual online version is available on the
Publications page.

05/14/2008

See your ten most recently viewed items listed at the bottom left, under the main menu.

04/17/2008

Select a color from the color picker to customize your visit. When logged in
as a registered user your selection will be
saved in your profile for the next time you log in.

03/15/2008

If a bill succeeded in creating a Public Act, and that Public Act is currently in the Michigan Compiled Law, the bill status page for that bill now links to that portion of the law. Find this feature next to the Public Act number at the top of the bill status page.

The Bill Status (also called bill summary) and most supporting documents (Analysis, Calendars, Journals) as far back as 1995 are now available on the Michigan Legislative Website. It is no longer necessary to go to a seperate Archive Site to access these documents.

Look for all page specific menu items, such as the printable version, the short link, "add to print basket" and "add to filing cabinet", at the top of each page. Prior to this new change, some of these page specific menu items were at the bottom of the pages they served.

07/19/2007

House Official Journal for 2006 is now available on the
Publications page.

Senate Official Journal for 2006 is now available on the
Publications page.

06/19/2007

Three new layout tools have been added for registered users. View and manage your Personal Email Notifications, Filing Cabinet, and Print Basket on every page using these new layout controls. Find out more.

04/30/2007

New Survey! Please tell us what video overviews of the website you would like us to create for you.

Full Text Search Syntax Updates While mostly maintaining backward compatibility
with our previous full text search syntax, we now support Google’s basic syntax
standards, with which most users have grown accustomed. Examples: landlord tenant
= all docs containing both words landlord -tenant = all docs containing the first
word but not the second landlord "tenant relationships" = all docs containing the
word and the exact phrase landlord -"tenant relationships" = all docs containing
the word but not the exact phrase

"Legislative Activity" and "How do I..." added to the home page, providing quick access to items of interest. The Legislature number has also been added to
the site.

"Adjourned Until" item added to the top of the website.

New 2007 Legislative Telephone Book available. See the publications page for an order form.

It is now possible to be automatically notified of changes to sections of law. This is an addition to the many other options already available. Learn more about the Notification System, which is a free service provided by Michigan Legislative Council, the Michigan House of Representatives, and the Michigan Senate.

A "Printable Version" button has been added to the Committee Bill Records page. Use this printer icon
at the top of the page. Hint: This report looks best when printed in landscape mode.

A Citizen's Guide To State Government / First Glance has replaced the prior version of this document on the Publications
page.

The 2006 Michigan Taxpayer's Guide has been updated with the 2007
Michigan Taxpayer's Guide on the Publications
page.

01/25/2007

The last history action for bills and resolutions is now included in the nightly
notification reports that are sent to registered users who are utilizing this feature.

01/03/2007

The Committee Bill Records Page has been updated! Choose from or combine a number of criteria to search and sort on, including sponsor, committee, and whether or not there is a meeting or status associated with the record. When Committee Bill Records begin to arrive on the website
for the 2007 session, you will see this new feature by first selecting a Committee Bill Record from the list of Standing Committees.

11/15/2006

Michigan Public and Local Acts for the years 2002, 2003, 2004 and 2005 have been added to the
Publications page.

11/6/2006

House Official Journal for 2005 is now available on the
Publications page.

Senate Official Journal for 2005 is now available on the
Publications page.

Status pages for resolutions from 2005 forward now display introduced version documents (for the House) and the adopted version documents (for both the House and Senate). For resolutions prior to 2005, please continue to refer to the journal linked in each resolution's history.

7/28/2006

2005-2006 Michigan Manual online version is available on the
Publications page.

Registered users can now easily check the status of their email address by
visiting the Notify page (only available when logged in) and viewing the status
message next to the email address. If your notification emails have been
bouncing back to us, the status will indicate INACTIVE; to see the reasons why,
click the Bounced Email Status link under the Notification Functions section of
the Notify page.

Short, safe-to-paste links are
now provided for most pages within the site. If you need to copy and paste a
URL into an email or instant message, click the link icon next to the page
header and follow the instructions given.

4/7/2006

An "Add Checked Items to Notification" button has been added to
the registered user Filing Cabinet page, making it simple to sign up for email
notification of updates to items in your filing cabinet. Contents of the
Filing Cabinet are now automatically alphabetized. Also, new formatting
and default values make this feature easier to use and understand.
Find out more about the filing cabinet, or
find out more about notification.

The most recent history item has been added to the result
list of bill searches, so it is no longer necessary to open each bill to
determine the last activity on the item.

An RSS 2.0 XML file has been
provided on the Bills page for syndication
of bill updates.

An option to receive plain text notification emails (as opposed to
Html emails) has been added to the Notify page. Note that you can only
access the Notify page when logged in with your registered username and
password.

A "Printable Version" of most pages in the site can be accessed
by clicking on the new printer icon at the
top of the page.

An MCL document outline, or "index", is available, and can be
seen as an index icon at the top of
MCL pages.

Bill searches by category
and by detailed category
can take multiple categories. The result of a search using multiple
categories/detailed categories will be only those bills that belong to all of
the selected categories/detailed categories.

Custom controls for logged in users (not always present).

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